Never owned an apple device myself, but honestly I just want the existing tech to start coming down in cost. I grabbed a fordable this year and it's great. It was very much not worth $2200 though (and that was before tarriffs), so I grabbed a used 2YO model for $800 or so.

I'm already salavating at the thought of a fordable tablet in any form. But not at the thought of paying $3000 for one with current pricing.

Am I right to assume those typos meant to say "foldable"?

Yes, my apologies. In an attempt to be "boring" I've also sworn off Swiftkey (owend under Microsoft which of course was now trying to push Copilot on me that way).

There's definitely an adjustment off of using a new keyboard after a decade.

No worries, easy mistake to make! (And I'm probably one of the few people for whom it wasn't immediately obvious what you intended.)

I'm just saying I need a real reason to upgrade beyond "benchmarks make me feel good".

I can run local LLM's fine on my M1 Pro from 2021. I play games on it too. Why would I spend multiple thousands on a M(N) Macbook if there's no real reason to? It's not like when I upgraded from a 386DX to a Pentium.

I have a similar argument for phones right now. There are some AI-related reasons to upgrade, but there's not really a clear killer app yet besides frontier model chat apps. Why should I spend thousands of euros on an upgrade when I don't get anything significantly different for it?

> Why should I spend thousands of euros on an upgrade when I don't get anything significantly different for it?

You shouldn't and nobody is asking you to. Apple can sell their new computers to billions of prospective customers who wish to upgrade from x86 or buy their first computer.

Being able to continue running a 4 year old laptop for many more years without performance issues seems like a positive thing, not a negative one.